And reading back over all this, I think there's a much simpler counter-argument that I may have been missing: it could sound like I'm advocating Cliff's Notes culture. Saying that "high art"/"low art" or "adult"/"young adult" or "literature"/"pulp" are all equivalent, so watching the "Mobius Dick" episode of Futurama is the same as reading Moby Dick.

I'm not, of course, mostly since that'd be such a specious argument I can't imagine anybody taking it seriously. The idea I'm trying to get across is that instead of drawing a hard line between art that's "good for you" and pure entertainment, we should acknowledge how entertainment isn't always just empty calories.